Our Story
Perfumer Marie Urban Le Febvre and Alexander Urban, both experts in the field of fragrance creation,
made their dream come true and founded
Urban Scents in Berlin in 2014.
When Marie and Alexander met for the first time, it was not only love at first sight, it was also the spontaneous familiarity of two people sharing the same passions. The sense of adventure and their passion for flying brought them together and with Urban Scents they have fulfilled the dream of creating their own perfume house.
They chose Berlin, Germany, as their new homeland and set up their creative laboratory in the fashionable neighbourhood of Charlottenburg.
Biographies
Marie Urban le Febvre
Perfumer-Creator & founder
Marie, who comes from Paris, France, is one of these very few gifted people with this exceptional sense of smell, a good feeling for people and intuition. After studies of Chemistry, Marie graduated from the prestigious Perfumery school ISPICA in Versailles. Following her studies, she worked for International Perfume houses and grooved her skills with Masters of the craft.
Nowadays she explores new way of creating scents in her Berlin laboratory. She bridges her classical French perfumery know-how and the unique spirit of the vibrant, inspiring, multi-cultural, creative German capital into her creations and perfumes.
In addition, she supports other brands with her creative potential and knowledge and works on other fragrance development for museum exhibitions as well as science and research related projects.
Marie is member of the International Perfumer Creator Association based in Paris.
Alexander Urban
Creator & founder
Alexander, who originally comes from Austrian, is a real citizen of the world. Between Milan, Paris, Jakarta, Amsterdam, London, New York and Berlin he spent more than 30 years in the fragrance business.
After working with Estée Lauder, he joined the world leaders of the fragrance houses like IFF, Givaudan and Takasago, the ‘more secret side’ of the industry, where scents are created. Exploring every field of the perfume industry, from the most exclusive art creations to the most popular perfumes.
With his expertise Alexander has a very unique and global understanding of today’s fragrance business.
He is primarily dedicated to the development of B2B projects and the international development and expansion of the Urban Scents brand.
Furthermore, he also attends to cultural, social and particularly medical fragrance-related projects, which lie closest to his heart.